MIDDLEFIELD CANADIAN INCOME TRUST: Pays 5% dividend

MIDDLEFIELD CANADIAN INCOME TRUST: The gem that pays a 5% dividend By Jeff Prestridge, Financial Mail on Sunday Published: 21:52 BST, 24 April 2021 | Updated: 21:52 BST, 24 April 2021 Investment trust Middlefield Canadian Income represents an unusual but attractive proposition for investors looking for a mix of income and capital return.  Although the … Read more

NHS Trust pleads guilty to failing to provide safe care to baby

NHS Trust pleads guilty over ‘wholly avoidable’ death of seven-day-old boy at scandal-hit hospital where doctors refused to work weekends The NHS trust has pleaded guilty to failing to provide safe care and treatment  Harry Richford died in November 2017, seven days after his emergency delivery  Inquest found his death at Queen Elizabeth The Queen … Read more

NHS Trust pleads guilty to failing to provide safe care to baby

NHS Trust pleads guilty to failing to provide safe care and treatment of seven-day-old boy who died at scandal-hit hospital where doctors refused to work weekends The NHS trust has pleaded guilty to failing to provide safe care and treatment  Harry Richford died in November 2017, seven days after his emergency delivery  Inquest found his … Read more

Three in four Britons don’t trust online banking

Three in four Britons don’t trust online banking as threat from scams escalates  76% said they ‘lack trust towards using their banking services online’  81% say that ‘trust is the most important factor in their purchasing journey’ It comes as banks continue to close branches By Toby Walne for The Mail on Sunday Published: 22:21 … Read more

SCOTTISH AMERICAN INVESTMENT: Trust keeps its dividend

SCOTTISH AMERICAN INVESTMENT: Trust keeps its dividend halo as payouts plunge By Rachel Rickard Straus For The Mail On Sunday Published: 22:25 BST, 17 April 2021 | Updated: 22:25 BST, 17 April 2021 Last year was dismal for anyone seeking an income from their investments.  Dividends from UK companies plunged by 38 per cent, according … Read more

Government refuses to back proposals to try and fix Child Trust Fund lockout

Setback for attempts to make it easier for parents of disabled children to access locked trust fund cash as government refuses to back proposals Peers put forward a plan which would not require parents to go to court   It would have given legal backing to proposals which cut forms and costs The current lockout could … Read more

National Trust orders volunteers to take diversity training to ‘raise awareness’ of ‘biases’

Chartwell, Kent Chartwell’s land has history dating back to the 14th century and it is thought to have been built on as early as the 16th century, with Historic England noting that some of the Tudor brickwork is still visible on external walls.  Chartwell, now a Grade I listed building, became the family home of … Read more

National Trust orders volunteers to take diversity training to ‘raise awareness’ of ‘biases’

Chartwell, Kent Chartwell’s land has history dating back to the 14th century and it is thought to have been built on as early as the 16th century, with Historic England noting that some of the Tudor brickwork is still visible on external walls.  Chartwell, now a Grade I listed building, became the family home of … Read more

Tory and Labour peers put forward plan to fix Child Trust Fund lockout

An industry-devised workaround to allow the parents of disabled children access to otherwise-locked Child Trust Fund and Junior Isa savings without having to go to court could be given legal backing under proposals put forward by peers. Former Tory cabinet minister Lord Young and Labour’s Lord Blunkett have proposed an amendment to the Financial Services … Read more